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The EFCC arrested the former governor just as the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Mahmood Yakubu, assured Nigerians that the Commission will cooperate with the anti- graft agency in regarding its personnel named in the scandal. According to a statement by the commission’s Director, Voters’ Education and Publicity, Oluwole Ozaze-Uzzi on Monday, Mr. Yakubu gave the assurance during a meeting with editors in Lagos. “Whatever level of cooperation any of the agencies requires of the Commission, we will give that level of cooperation because it is also in a bid to sanitize the system,” Mr. Yakubu was quoted as saying. “I hope also it (investigation) will extend to the givers not just the takers so that there will be collective sanity. Whoever violates the law of this land and there are questions to answer, the person should answer, the person should bear his own cross. “All the staff that are fingered are individuals. It is not a collective institutional thing. They should go and answer for what they have alleged to have done.” Some staff of the electoral body were alleged to have received a cumulative N23 billion in bribe from Mrs. Alison-Madueke, through Fidelity Bank. Prominent among the accused INEC staff were Gesila Khan, the Resident Electoral Commissioner who had earlier been arrested by the State Security Service over allegations of inducement to rig elections in Rivers State; and Uluochi Obi Brown (INEC’s Administrative Secretary in Delta State), former Deputy Director of INEC in Cross River state, Edem Okon Effanga, and the Head of Voter Education in INEC in Akwa Ibom, Immaculata Asuquo. Also under investigation is retired INEC official, Sani Isa, who allegedly collected bribe on behalf of the deceased Resident Electoral Commissioner in Kano State, Mukaila Abdullahi. Also two unnamed former INEC chiefs were said to have participated in aiding the flow of the bribe money. The alleged bribery scandal involved bank chiefs, including Sterling Bank Chief Executive, Yemi Adeola, the removed Managing Director of Fidelity Bank, Nnamdi Okonkwo and Access Bank Managing Director, Hubert Wigwe, who allegedly assisted Mrs. Alison-Maduekwe in laundering part of the fund which was allegedly handed to INEC staff in a plot to influence outcomes of the 2015 presidential poll.

Hong Kong, China - In shadows cast by streetlights in the pre-dawn hours, a diminutive figure shuffles along, hunched over a cart. She stoops to pick up a discarded piece of cardboard. Other people's rubbish is much-needed income for her. This is how Fok Po Po starts the day, seven days a week, in Hong Kong's stifling humidity, torrential rain and epic thunderstorms. Fok Po Po - or "grandma" in Cantonese - is 66. She's worked hard all her life and invested in a retirement fund. But in Hong Kong, one of the world's most expensive cities, Fok Po Po is one of a growing number of elderly people resorting to collecting rubbish to survive. In this city of seven million people, where more Rolls-Royces roam the roads than anywhere else on earth, about one third of residents aged over 65 live in poverty. They are the face of Hong Kong's

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